Iron Canyon
Iron Canyon is a valley in Calaveras County, Gold Country, California and has an elevation of 512 feet. Iron Canyon is situated nearby to the hamlet Melones Sunset Lake Estates, as well as near Heavenly Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Melones Dam.
New Melones Dam
Dam
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New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Stanislaus River, about 5 miles west of Jamestown, California, United States, on the border of Calaveras County and Tuolumne County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Copperopolis and Melones.
Copperopolis
Locality
Copperopolis is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 3,400 at the 2020 census, down from 3,671 at the 2010 census. Copperopolis is situated 5 miles west of Iron Canyon.
Melones
Hamlet
Melones is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California, now submerged beneath a reservoir named New Melones Lake. It lay at an elevation of 955 feet. Melones is situated 5 miles north of Iron Canyon.
Jamestown
Jamestown is an unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, Jamestown was designated a California Historical Landmark on March 16, 1949.
Iron Canyon
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 512 feet
- Description: valley in Calaveras County, California, United States of America
- Category: landform
- Location: Calaveras County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Iron Canyon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Iron Canyon (walog sa Estados Unidos, California, Calaveras County)”
- Cebuano: “Iron Canyon”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Melones Sunset Lake Estates and Heavenly Hills.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include New Melones Lake and New Melones Dam.
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